VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE AUGUST 18, 2024

We begin our service with song. Pastor Gail Whitcome Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Laura Vasquez calls us to worship with a reading from 1 Chronicles 16. Michael Blanco opens us in prayer. Nick Baltazar and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Albert Ramseyer takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon, “Will We Be a Neighbor?” Pastor Gail asks, as Verdugo church celebrates its Centennial, how Verdugo should fulfill its goal to “make and grow disciples by loving and living in community with our neighbors.” She reminds us of Paul’s admonitions in Ephesians 6 on how Christians should act out of love towards others just as God, our Father, has loved us. When we pray that God’s Kingdom come, we are committing to do all we can to see that his Kingdom of justice and love is growing. This requires us to reach out to our neighbors here at Verdugo in possibly new ways. God has a plan for Verdugo, and it is up to us to seek it out and follow it.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.

 

Prayers of the People have been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of those participating or mentioned. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s CCLI license # 2486815.

 

Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343, or by email at pastorgail50@yahoo.com or our church email set out above.

 

Worship service copyright 2024 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2024 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.